September 2009
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EIT TAKES TEXAS →
EIT’s first ever Texas retreat was a smashing success! Big thanks to John Gross and the rest of the staff at the Alamo Drafthouse for showing us a great time. For those of you who were at the…
Creepy →
Untitled Document →
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this isn't happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr →
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Church converted into magnificent bookstore →
This breathtaking place is a former Dominican church that was converted into a new retail location for bookseller Selexyz Dominicanen. The architecture firm was Merkx+Girod. From Design…
Censorship will be enforced - There will be no... →
The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted, it is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are…
Katie Couric's salary exceeds combined budgets of... →
Jesse Brown, a BoingBoing guest blogger, is the host of TVO’s Search Engine podcast. Michael Massing of the Columbia Journalism Review digs up some startling info that helps explain why network…
London cops finally apologise for mugging geek --... →
Glyn sez, “In 2005, Boing Boing reported on the arrest of a London geek for the ‘crime’ of carrying a ‘bulky’ backpack (e.g., a laptop bag), wearing an ‘unseasonably warm’ coat (it was one of the…
Arial Vs. Helvetica →
This is probably old hat for type nerds, but this chart clearly lays out some of the crucial distinctions between Arial and Helvetica. The Q distinctions are especially critical! …
Flickr gallery of the Sydney dust storm →
is there life on Mars?
teennerd | Another reason I love Flickr: Holding... →
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The New Science of Causation →
It seems like each new day brings another one of those headlines: regular sleep “linked to” life expectancy, playing video games “associated with” surgical prowess, bullies “at risk” of becoming…
Church converted into magnificent bookstore →
This breathtaking place is a former Dominican church that was converted into a new retail location for bookseller Selexyz Dominicanen. The architecture firm was Merkx+Girod. From Design…
a_Lighter_Or_a_Spoon___by_GoranDA.jpg 801×620... →
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sur Flickr : partage de photos ! →
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desiretoinspire.net: Jean-Pierre Lemoin →
via http://desiretoinspire.blogspot.com/2009/07/jean-pierre-lemoine.html
"Animani", omaggio al genio di Mariotti - Galleria... →
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China prepares for its 60th anniversary →
Chinese citizens and government workers have been preparing for months for their upcoming celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1st. Parts…
Big things have small beginnings →
Charlotte and Branwell Brontë wrote many of their stories of Angria on tiny sheets of paper in nearly microscopic handwriting. This particular example consists of four sheets of notepaper folded…
Editing Dan Brown →
Brian Joseph Davis takes a crack at editing some passages from the first two chapters of The Da Vinci Code. Maybe using the adverb “slowly” seven times in your first 10 pages is the secret to…
MG Siegler on the Importance of Enthusiasm →
MG Siegler, on the “Incredible, Amazing, Awesome Apple” supercut video that made the rounds this week: While certainly there is some element of hearing something so many times that you start to…
"Insane killer" who was treated to a day at a... →
What could be wrong with taking an insane killer to the country fair? Oh, yeah. Insane killer escapes on trip to county fair (Via Bits & Pieces)
PHOTO: Apple sweats the details, even in the most →
Apple sweats the details, even in the most pedestrian corners of its software. (Finer Things in Mac, via Daring Fireball)
DNA R/W+ 12 Speed →
The speed at which Synthetic Biology is evolving (pun intended) is mind-blowing, especially to someone who has just stumbled upon the science (inspired by Tuur Van Balen’s presentation at …
[from aaronsw] Jamie Galbraith: Why Populists Need... →
A model of clear thinking and evisceration. Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by aaronsw to jamesgalbraith jefffaux evisceration politics economics - More…
[from mathowie] Spring semester: Advanced... →
The exhaustive history of the phrase “underwater basketweaving” Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by mathowie to bestofaskmefi metafilter language awesome - More…
Film Poster Paintings from Ghana →
I’m not sayin’ that Hollywood doesn’t know how to make good movie posters anymore (because they obviously still do), it’s just the the Ghanaians seem to have perfected the art. In the…
Reports of Trackball Trouble With the BlackBerry... →
Sounds like the scrollball in the Mighty Mouse: In a research note, Hallaren writes that RIMM is “having a big trackball problem,” especially with the Tour. He reports that RIMM “needs customers…
Vacuum tubes will replace motors - 1931 science... →
This breathless — and mysteriously incomplete — Modern Mechanix article from 1931 promises a bold future in which vacuum tubes replace motors:
IMAGINE a tube, a thing of glass and metal,…
Henrik Menne's Sculptures →
via http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/henrik_mennes_sculptures_10092.asp
The Ghost Fleet of the Recession →
A gigantic fleet of semi-abandoned cargo and container ships has been photographed east of Singapore. Meanwhile, the ship-breaking yards at Alang are booming, and the shipping industry is…
Everything Is Terrible's Advanced DOS Strategies →
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Highsnobette | Daily Online Magazine For Womens... →
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Sesame Street Stop Motion →
I was jonesing for some of that great stop motion animation from my days as a thumb-sucking, bed-wetting, Sesame Street-watching young lad. YouTube to the rescue.
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Story about Wal-Mart founder's treatment of his... →
The American Prospect reviewed a couple of books about Wal-Mart, and included this charming anecdote about Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton
Around the time that the young Sam Walton opened his first…
Shouty Congressman Enjoys Pretty Good... →
Speaking of Joe Wilson: “Military beneficiaries like Wilson─who, as a retiree, is eligible for lifetime coverage─never have to worry about an eye exam, a CT scan, a prolonged labor, or an…
An increasingly interesting human. →
David Letterman has gotten his second wind: The bad boy of Ball State, Huck Finn grown and weathered, David Letterman has become the national Daddy. He is the ideal dad for the age—not a…
In Defense of Sampling: Why Stealing is Inspiring →
Audio sampling in contemporary music is a form of budding innovation that proves not only the evolution of the industry, but a method to build on creative works that inspire us. The practice of…
Ka-101.jpg (image) →
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The Mushroom Tunnel of Mittagong →
[Image: Shiitake logs on racks in the Mittagong mushroom tunnel. All photos by the author]. Note: This is a guest post by Nicola Twilley. As Geoff mentioned here on BLDGBLOG a few…
Texas School District Not Worried About Certain... →
Try and act surprised: “A Texas school district that declined to allow students to listen to President Obama’s speech to students on Tuesday will bus about 500 students to attend a Super…
The Sleepwalkers →
More things here later. Very tired.
Mind = Blown →
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Seeing with Tongues →
A new breakthrough device, recently covered in Scientific American, restores partial eyesight to the blind by using sensors in the tongue to send sign signals to the brain. The research comes…
A Political Startup →
“Politics is like the weather: everybody discusses it but nobody actually does anything about it.” The golden dome of the Massachusetts State House rises majestically over the grass of Boston…
[from joshua] Can you name some truly unique Mac... →
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45 Vintage ‘Space Age’ Illustrations //... →
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T-Shirt Shows Exactly Who You Really Are [Science] →
I know this girl who is made of sugar, spice, and everything nice. But the rest of us are made out of things like oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, potassium, sulfur, chlorine, germanium, cobalt,…
45 Vintage ‘Space Age’ Illustrations //... →
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